The School of Management and Labor Relations has invited Megumi Kojima, a visiting scholar from Japan, to be a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Work and Health. Recently we interviewed Kojima to find out a little more about her connection to SMLR and to learn more about her research.

Susan Dentzer, senior health policy adviser for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and renowned health policy expert and journalist, was the keynote speaker at the Employment Relations in Healthcare Conference held on March 14, 2014 in Rutgers Labor Education Center.

SMLR Dean Susan Schurman writes in her op-ed, published in The Star-Ledger, "Rather than making athletes employees, let’s allow them to major in the sport they play. Let them study for a degree in football, basketball or baseball. Let’s integrate sports into the academic curriculum."

Professor Eileen Applebaum, renowned economist and SMLR adjunct instructor, gave a special talk titled, “Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street,” held on April 9 at the Labor Education Center.

Rutgers held a free job fair, featuring more than 30 employers, to mark the start of the second annual NJ Health Care Industry Week. More than 300 people attended the Busch Campus Center to discover education and training in health care professions.

Dr. Aparna Joshi, a 2002 graduate of the IRHR doctoral program, has been selected as the 2014 recipient of the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division's Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, recognizing the outstanding scholarly achievement of an early-to-mid career scholar in the field of organizational behavior.

More than 200 students from Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations met with more than two dozen recruiters during the school’s Spring Career Fair, held March 7, 2014 in the Livingston Student Center.

According to a new study released today by Rutgers professors, the state of New Jersey is lacking oversight of its third-party contractors. The study assesses this situation and presents recommendations to remedy the situation.

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SMLR welcomed over 70 scholars from across the country and the globe as the school hosted the annual, Mid-Year Fellows Workshop in Honor of Louis O. Kelso on January 12-14. Researchers addressed broad-based employee stock ownership and profit sharing in a global economy.

On November 8, Rutgers University Promote Overall Worker & Employer Relations (RU POWER) held an Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) panel discussion on employee rights. More than 60 students were in attendance to learn how to prevent and handle workplace discrimination.